Kolkata: A 27-year-old biker was detained by Karaya Police after allegedly assaulting, abusing, and issuing death threats to an on-duty sergeant near the southern flank of 4 Number Bridge on Monday. The incident occurred while the complainant, sergeant Abhishek Das, was flagging down bikers violating traffic laws and prosecuting them.According to the complaint, Das stopped…
Construction of the Durga Puja pandal has begun at Allen Park Kolkata: Allen Park on Park Street, a venue that has been associated with Christmas celebrations since 2011 and Park Street Carnival for four years prior to that, will host a Durga Puja for the first time this year. The puja will be organised by…
With several hotels on the Free School Street belt shutting down, visitors have been left in the lurch Free School Street, which is usually buzzing with activity, wears a deserted look in the wake of the fire With several hotels on the Free School Street belt shutting down, visitors have been left in the lurch…
The five routes launching this week will link Hanskhali, Santragachhi, Bijaygarh, Jadavpur, and Baruipur directly with New Town Kolkata: The state govt-backed app Yatri Sathi is set to launch five new air-conditioned shuttle bus routes.The expansion scales the platform’s shuttle network to 12 routes, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, and key suburban belts with…
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla (file photo) Kolkata/New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has issued notices to 20 rebel Trinamool MPs who merged with Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India, seeking their response within seven days to Abhishek Banerjee’s disqualification petition under the Constitution’s anti-defection law.The notices were issued on Tuesday, the same day…
Howrah: A 65-year-old retired schoolteacher was burnt to death and another person suffered 60% burns after a fire broke out at Uddalok residential complex in Mourigram, Howrah, around 1 pm on Wednesday. Six others, who suffered suffocation and minor burns, were treated at Howrah District Hospital and discharged.Police identified the deceased as Gopa Mukherjee, who…
CM Suvendu Adhikari met Sita Mullick on Tuesday Kolkata: A day after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari promised a roof over the head of Sita Mullick, the 60-year-old Free School Street pavement dweller who unwittingly kicked up a political storm following an encounter with state urban development minister Agnimitra Paul, the minister on Wednesday admitted that…
Kolkata: Action would be taken against former CM Mamata Banerjee if she failed to return 19 books issued to her from the assembly library, warned Bengal mass education extension and library services minister Gouri Sankar Ghosh on Tuesday.The books borrowed by Banerjee are 18 volumes of Rabindra Rachanabali and a copy of Tagore’s Sanchayita. According…
A worker plucks tea leaves Kolkata: The Indian Tea Association (ITA) has submitted white papers to the state govt, seeking its intervention for the revival of Darjeeling and Dooars tea.The submitted white papers examined the structural, financial, climatic, labour and market-related challenges the two iconic tea-growing regions are facing and offered a roadmap of policy…
A professor questioned student dance performances at NIT Durgapur’s induction program. KOLKATA: A video from a students’ induction programme at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur has sparked a debate over campus decorum after a professor reportedly interrupted a student dance performance on various Bollywood songs.The incident took place on the second day of…
